Warrant Liabilities - Fair Value of Convertible Preferred Stock Warrant Liability (Detail)		12 Months Ended
Feb. 12, 2016	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Series B Warrants [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Liabilities, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Volatility	90.00%		90.00%
Expected Term (years)	0 years		1 month 12 days
Expected dividend yield	0.00%		0.00%
Risk-free rate	0.65%		0.65%
Series C Warrants [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Liabilities, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Volatility		90.00%	90.00%
Expected Term (years)		3 years 2 months 1 day	4 years 2 months 1 day
Expected dividend yield		0.00%	0.00%
Risk-free rate		1.51%	1.76%

Expected dividends to be paid to holders of the underlying shares or financial instruments (expressed as a percentage of the share or instrument's price).

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (bbb)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66048111&loc=d3e19207-110258

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Period the instrument, asset or liability is expected to be outstanding, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Measure of dispersion, in percentage terms (for instance, the standard deviation or variance), for a given stock price.

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